Hollywood, Interrupted is a sometimes frightening,
occasionally sad, and frequently hysterical odyssey into the
darkest realms of showbiz pathology, the endless stream of
meltdowns and flameouts, and the inexplicable behavior on the part
of show business personalities.

Charting celebrities from rehab to retox, to jails, cults,
institutions, near-death experiences and the Democratic Party,
Hollywood, Interrupted takes readers on a surreal field trip
into the amoral belly of the entertainment industry. Each chapter
— covering topics including warped Hollywood child-rearing,
bad medicine, hypocritical political maneuvering and the complicit
media — delivers a meticulously researched,
interview-infused, attitude heavy dispatch which analyzes and
deconstructs the myths created by the celebrities themselves.

Celebrities somehow believe that it's their god-given right to
inflict their pathology on the rest of us. Hollywood,
Interrupted illustrates how these dysfunctional dilettantes are
mad as hell... And we're not going to take it any more.

1. Hollywood Family Values: A New Weird Order.
Hollywood families exposed for not only not upholding family values
but pissing all over middle-class mores. Rethinking the life and
death of River Phoenix. Familial implosions exposed. It’s
gotten so bad we argue for sterilization of the celebrity
class.

2. In Loco Parentis: Hollywood Nannies.
Hollywood nannies speak out and tell all—“There is no
laughter in this house.” Nannies so stressed they’ve
formed a Beverly Hills support group. A nanny gets blacklisted.

3. Hollyweird High.
Inside Crossroads School for the Arts & Sciences, where
Hollywood elite send their children, and we find, like any other
school in the Western world, sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll. Unlike
other high schools, we also discover Crossdressing Day, Ménage
à Prom, death, and a mandatory pseudo-therapeutic program
called “Mysteries.”

6. From Rehab to Retox.
Rehab centers to the stars get visits from Matthew Perry, Robert
Downey Jr., Ben Affleck, among others. Celeb rehab spas offer a
panoply of treatment programs from equine therapy to brain wave
analysis. Not on the menu—sex in the bathroom.

12. Blue Country Haze.
Hollywood ground zero for the culture war. Rosie, the lesbian,
swoons over the heterosexual Tom Cruise. Oprah dictates politics.
The war of the ribbons (can you support PETA and be for AIDS
research?). Flacks make celebs pick a cause.

Andrew Breitbart has played the low-key online sidekick to
Matt Drudge on the infamous Drudge Report for five years. From
his newsroom-cum-home office in LA, Breitbart has shared site
chores of keeping up with the demanding 24/7 news-cycle for an
audience that now reaches well into the millions. His writing has
appeared in the Wall Street Journal, National Review Online,
and New York Post, among others. Breitbart also
co-produced a documentary set to air on the History Channel in
2004. He has worked as a researcher and webmaster for Arianna
Huffington and MAD TV, among others, and delivered pizzas to the
stars in Brentwood. Breitbart lives in Los Angeles with his wife
Susie and their two children.

Mark Ebner is an award-winning investigative journalist
who has covered all aspects of celebrity culture for Spy,
Rolling Stone, Details, Los Angeles magazine, Premiere,
Salon, Spin, and NewTimes among
others. He has repeatedly positioned himself in harm's way,
conducting over 50 in-depth investigations into such subjects as
Scientology, pit bull fighting in South Central Los Angeles, the Ku
Klux Klan in Texas, celebrity stalkers, sports groupies, college
suicides, and Hepatitus C in Hollywood. Ebner has produced for
and/or appeared as a journalist-commentator on NBC, MSNBC, A&E,
FX, E!, Entertainment television. He hosted the nationally
syndicated radio program, Drastic Radio in 2000 and is
Editor at Large for LA Innuendo magazine. Ebner lives in
Venice, California, with his two dogs, Roxie and Poorboy.

“…lifts the lid on some of Tinseltown’s
weirdest and most notorious celebrities…” (Western
Daily Press, 3 April 2004)

"...the industry has never been without a scandal, as this
jaw-dropping book reveals..." (Hot Stars, 3 April 2004)

ANY ENTERTAINMENT hack worth his saltpeter understands that he
is compromised - effectively neutered from word one . . . in toto,
entertainment journalists are disgruntled; they are professionally
castrated. And to top it off, these masochists are in turn,
castigated and hated by the stars they've just fluffed up."
So write Andrew Breitbart and Mark Ebner in
"Hollywood Interrupted." Hmmm . . . interesting point. As a lowly
gossip columnist myself, I'd say the authors hit the nail on the
head.
This book, which will land on the best-seller list next week, is an
unabashedly right-wing, conservative one-note samba on celebrity
culture. Is it the truth? Sure - from the authors' point of view,
but with no balance. All stars are the devil here. I can't say I
enjoyed this one; it's tone is often nasty and even petty - "the
aging actress" . . . "the portly actor . . . " But as an antidote
to much of what passes for entertainment coverage - or even this
column - "Hollywood Interrupted" has appeal and certainly it has
shock value. After a while, however, shocks lose impact. Chapter
after chapter on those bad people in show biz! And it's not as if
anybody's going to stop attending the movies, buying records or
being fascinated with celebrity just because these writers are able
to reveal clay feet under every heavenly Hollywood body. (The
New York Post, Liz Smith, March 15th)

Not since Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons have two journalists
(Breitbart feeds stories to Internet scandalmonger Matt Drudge and
Ebner wrote for Spy) gathered more mean-spirited gossip
about celebrities they condemn as sick and depraved. (Publishers
Weekly, February 2, 2004)

CELEBRITIES are skewered like shish kabobs in Andrew Breitbart
and Mark Ebner's upcoming book, Hollywood Interrupted
(Wiley). The veteran journalists air embarrassing anecdotes about
everyone from egomaniacal producer Robert Evans to Tinseltown train
wreck Courtney Love to fallen power agent Michael Ovitz. The
authors disclose a previously unheard 1993 wiretap of Evans
chatting with Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss in which Evans seems to
be ordering up a 17-year-old girl he calls "the little one." A
chapter titled "Heroine: Love Means Never to Have to Say You're
Courtney" was so damning in its details of Love's many meltdowns
that her agents at Vigliano & Associates demanded that it be
cut from the book (it wasn't). The tome also recounts how, after
being terrorized by Ovitz's spoiled b rat childre n, the power
agent's nanny quit and was subsequently blacklisted from working in
Hollywood households. (The New York Post, Page Six, February
5, 2004)

Celebrity excess is being skewered in a pointed new book about
the alleged bad behavior of some of Tinseltown's bigger
names.Hollywood Interrupted is the work of writers *Mark Ebner*
and *Andrew Breitbart.* While writing the book, the authors parted
ways with their literary agent, *David Vigliano,* over a
less-than-glowing chapter they penned on another of his clients,
*Courtney Love.*
Some examples: *Barbra Streisand*'s ex, *Elliott Gould,* is
criticized as an absent parent.
*Cher* gets praised as "a wonderful mother."
*Suzanne Hansen,* a nanny who worked for power agent *Michael
Ovitz,* claims Ovitz and his wife, *Judy,* spent so little time
together that they communicated via notes sent through the office
mail of Ovitz's Creative Artists Agency, where Judy also
worked.
The authors recommend mandatory sterilizations for aspiring
celebrities. (Daily News, Rush & Molloy, February 5,
2004)

"The perfect Oscar-Night side dish...Andrew Breitbart and Mark
Ebner's Hollywood, Interrupted is a terrific book, both
snappy and snappish.... The next best thing to a Los Angeles friend
with a nose for juicy gossip. (The Wall Street Journal

"Entertainment journalism has become a stampede of a-list
a**-kissing. The authors of this bracingly impudent expose,
however, have declined to pucker up." (Penthouse, February
2004)

"In this juicy Hollywood exposé, a pair of investigative
journalists talks to the hired help, including former butlers and
nannies, to peer inside the bad behavior of stars like John
Travolta, Liz Hurley and Winona Ryder. Shockingly delicious!"
(Star magazine, March 1, 2004)

“Fearless. Vicious. Hilarious. Andrew Breitbart and Mark
Ebner prove conclusively that radical family values + infinite
financial resources + cultural idol worship = moral chaos.
Celebrity is the modern American version of aristocracy.
Hollywood, Interrupted shows that our celebrities are every
bit as mad, corrupt, and unaccountable as their Medieval European
counterparts (albeit with better teeth). And like the old
aristocracy, they really are one big, incestuous family.
What you don’t understand—what you could not possibly
understand—is that not only are these people nuts:
They’re nuts who all know each other. Hollywood is the most
dysfunctional family in the history of the world and Hollywood,
Interrupted reads like a transcript of their therapy session.
It’s cheeky, sophisticated, and authoritative.”
—Jonathan Last, Weekly Standard

“Hollywood hypocrites are going to simmer with fury at the
painful barbs, backed up by plenty of facts, that these two
sleuthing authors toss at some of the i ndustry’s most
beloved stars and wags. If you love Larry King and Oprah,
you’d better get ready to defend their honor, because this
book deftly melts the shine off their armor.”
—Jill Stewart, “Capitol Punishment” syndicated
columnist, radio and television political commentator

“‘The rich are not like you and me,’ F. Scott
Fitzgerald said. Hollywood, Interrupted demonstrates that
the rich and famous are not like anybody—at least anybody
you’d want to be, or even shake hands with. In the
deliriously scandalous tradition of Hollywood Babylon, Breitbart
and Ebner’s juicy dispatch from the spiritual capital of the
Porn Belt reveals Tinseltown to be a glorified cathouse populated
by collagened sociopaths. These also happen to be the people who
drive American popular culture. Be afraid, be very
afraid.”
Rod Dreher, Dallas Morning News

“In Hollywood, Interrupted Breitbart and Ebner dig
deeply into the very heart of our greatest export—pop
culture—as produced by Hollywood, the movie industry and the
people who affect and infect America. You cannot take a more
fascinating or terrifying trip. There are tales of the fabulously
famous here you would never know if not for their work.
Hollywood, Interrupted is a book you have to put down
frequently in order to catch your breath. Absolutely
riveting.”
Lucianne Goldberg, Publisher, Lucianne.com
News Forum and Talk Radio Network host

“This book blew me away. It’s more than I wanted to
know, but I couldn’t stop reading it.”
—Orson Bean, actor

“Reading Hollywood, Interrupted is like sitting on
a stakeout and having a telescopic view into the darkest reaches of
the corruption and perversity of today’s celebrity
culture.
From the very first page to the last, Breitbart and Ebner’s
probing reporting spells out in graphic detail how Hollywood lives
by a set of norms the rest of America finds appropriately
appalling—and endlessly fascinating. The authors have the
unusual courage to take on Scientology. They provide revelations
about Michael Jackson’s sickness that go beyond even
today’s headlines. They rip the phony veneer off the
political correctness of Rosie O’Donnell and Barbra
Streisand.
They give readers a behind-the-scenes understanding of how snooping
private eyes and ruthless information brokers feed scoops to the
tabloids. And, in one riveting chapter, they document how a young
woman in the AOL backroom unmasked the bizarre fetishes of some of
Tinseltown’s top names. Hollywood, Interrupted is no
‘E’ channel fluff.
It’s disturbing stuff. But it’s all too real and
it’s utterly riveting.”
—Richard Gooding, investigative reporter

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